User:Dismounted Feudal Knight
| Dismounted Feudal Knight | |
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 Magistrate of TWC | |
| Badges/Roles: | Magistrate, Civitate |
| Patron: | King Athelstan |
| House: | The Imperial House of Hader |
| Patronized on: | 03/15/2020 |
| Patron of: | Maltacus |
| Forum Profile: | Here |
Hello there. I am Dismounted Feudal Knight, currently a Magistrate on TWC. Among other things I have been a moderator, a wiki editor (staff and freelance), a curialist, and sometimes a TWC activist. I've changed brand a few times since joining in 2017. Distinctively, I impersonated an infamous Roman emperor in my early TWC years.
I tend to participate in bursts; you'll see me a lot for one week and not so much another. Invariably I do show up.
You can also find me as raidarr#6550 on Discord if that's your venue.
Contents
An abridged history
2015-2021
I've been aware of the site existing since 2013-2014 or so. I registered in 2015, but did nothing and forgot the account. In 2017 I registered again, sucked in by Jadli from an obscure multiplayer/hotseating community on Steam. I wasn't very good at hotseating, but I did manage to get this started.
I expanded from hotseating into Tale of the Week, reading site history and participating in the Curial Commentary Thread. I did not participate for long in the Writer's Study and ultimately I didn't take too long with hotseating, but my interest in the Curia and the overall site survived. I also took an interest in editing the wiki. Eventually I gained citizenship by King Athelstan's patronage in 2020. Between 2018 and 2021 I was in and out of Content and roles in the Curia. Each of these roles were fairly short lived. In 2021 I wavered from a roman theme and tried a different branding. It didn't work well and I went back to the roman theme. I did quite a bit of strange stuff in this period and during 2021, which corresponded with rough moments in my personal life.
2022-2023
In 2022 I took a different approach, and settled on a long-term rebrand to what you see now. In February I joined the Moderation Staff (with a focus on TW sections) and Content Staff (Wiki Team, for a third time). This arrangement lasted until December, when new life events turned up and I expected to be gone for a long time. I resigned my roles expecting that, and as it turned out I was able to return by February 2023.
In '23 I took on the role of Magistrate. It's gone better than the first round, but it's rather quiet. TWC history is long and full of twists... stay tuned. :p
Bling
Current Badges
| Badge | Description |
|---|---|
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Elected February 18th, 2023. I vote on the (currently nonexistent) cases where users appeal Moderator actions. |
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Anointed March 15, 2020. I honestly just chose 'Civitate' over 'Citizen' because it's more fancy. |
Awards
| Award | Type | Reason |
|---|---|---|
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Silver Wiki Editor Award | The mark of my freelance wiki history working on the content, infrastructure and skins of the wiki. Achieved Bronze on June 3rd, 2019 and Silver on April 28th, 2020. |
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Moderator's Mace (Silver) | A reward for spambot-bashing and various janitorial work, mainly in the TW sections. |
Received a bronze CMS blogger award for meeting the 5 blog threshold. The blogs were not particularly good and I had the award scrapped with the blogs.
Previous Badges
| Badge | Description |
|---|---|
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Moderator as of February 5th, 2022 to December 2022. Voted 'best jannie twc ever had' by Cope, if that helps. My legacy is in the 'edited by' section of quite a few pins in the forum... |
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Wiki Team as of February 24th, 2022 to December 2022. I've retained the on-wiki access acquired during this term. |
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Elected on May 11th, 2021. It was an unremarkable term that I'm not very proud of, but I did get to experience the eldrich vBulletin underlay... |
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Elected on June 6th, 2020 as a local moderator of the Curia; served shortly before the position was eliminated. Didn't do much. I forget if I resigned, the term expired or it just got dropped with me in it, but I know it all happened abut the same time. |
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Discord Staff, as of May 10th, 2020. It was purple on Discord and never reflected on the site itself. Eventually I resigned, but the other guy has been there since the start. Now I'm a strange amalgamation of Gaming-Discord-Tech staff since KA gave me access to do some tweaks there. |
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A very short term to evaluate cases that were brought to the Tribunal. It was good reading for the future, but I was rather underqualified. There weren't many candidates and it was only after that it was realized I was just a little too new to citizenship to actually hold the position. |
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Before the badge was merged into main Content Staff, I briefly held this position. It was in the twilight days of Scriptorium activity in 2018. |
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Wiki Team a few times early on. The stints were quite brief; they were succeeded by a longer term above. |
DFK's project space
A list of stuff I'm working on relating to TWC. My activity is on and off: I will be here in bursts, but invariably I do show back up and a message can pull me out of a 'contributing winter' at any time.
My priorities are cleaning up elements of the forum and improving the wiki. It's humble work, and the best one may expect in TWC's twilight age. Anyone or anything that may help out these efforts is welcome.
Stars indicate what I'm working on at a given time, ★ being in progress or immediately up on queue and ☆ being next up to look at. All of the below is malleable with feedback. Otherwise I do my thing until someone says no :p
Wiki work
- User:Dismounted Feudal Knight/TWC staff, curia and ownership ★
- TWC Wiki:Help ★
- Template:TWC Wiki
- TWC Wiki:Help or TWC Wiki:Getting started?
- Idea is to split Help into multiple, tightly connected and interlinked pieces to try and simplify the wiki editing learning experience
- Idea is meant to be concurrent with the following: encouragement of non-site member contributions who may like the wiki but aren't interested in the forum; a revision of some of the supporting pages based on my improved grasp of wiki concepts from elsewhere; a revision of the project space to be more current and cleaned up
- History of Total War Center ☆
- Modding Portal ☆
- Competitions / Site Competitions
- detail on some of the offbrand titles released by CA
TWC forum
- mod announcements cohesion ★
- Pin index ☆
- registry reviews
- safedisc issue
Curia
- Antiokhos Euergetes citizen ★★
- bitterhowl citizen ☆
- Guide to the curia page edit ☆
